Gogoro builds sleek high-performance electric scooters. It looks something like what you’d get if you mated a Vespa and an iPhone -- which makes sense given Luke's background as chief innovation officer of HTC during its smartphone heyday. Since launching the product in 2015, the company has sold 30,000 vehicles.

The most unusual part of the company is that it uses swappable batteries to power up the vehicle. Gogoro drivers have to swing by the company's battery station and swap batteries. That makes rolling out to new markets a huge undertaking for the company.

The company currently runs more than 400 stations across Taiwan that lets Gogoro owners the ability to drive from the north in Taipei (where the most dense network of stations is installed) to the southern tip of the island.

The company has also recently expanded to Berlin and Paris, but the rollout outside of Taiwan remains limited for now. And the United States is likely far away, because scooters just don't have much appeal among American consumers.

Gogoro was founded in 2011 by Luke and Matt Taylor, both former executives at Microsoft and HTC.

While Gogoro shares a vision of pushing electric vehicles into the mainstream and a premium design sense with Tesla, Luke said Gogoro's product is more accessible to a larger chunk of the world.

“As you look at Tesla’s momentum, they’re still really addressing the 1% to 2% of the world,” Luke said. “We’re trying to address a bulk of the world.”